“If you add more fruits and vegetables in your diet, they’re full of fiber and water. They’re going to fill you up before they fill you out,” she said. “I’m getting the fiber in the fruits and the vegetables, and they’re going to displace the cookies and cakes and candies.”

“There is a real void in services for students with [traumatic brain injury] in helping them transition from being in a student role, graduating from school, and then obtaining a job. There are limited resources helping them with that transition period. Every single one of these students could benefit from the intense mentoring and advising that Project Career offers.”

“I recommend stretching after exercise or even at nonexercise times—for example, stretch in the middle of an eight-hour day sitting at your desk—instead of the typical stretch-before-you-work-out strategy that many employed for years. Stretching a muscle should be done when the muscle is short, meaning the length is not sufficient for the task that a person is trying to do.”